2. To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
The condition of a servant staves him off to a
distance. --South.
3. To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with
off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
And answered with such craft as women use, Guilty or
guilties, to stave off a chance That breaks upon
them perilously. --Tennyson.
4. To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
All the wine in the city has been staved. --Sandys.
5. To furnish with staves or rundles. --Knolles.
6. To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking
iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which
lead has been run.
{To stave and tail}, in bear baiting, (to stave) to interpose
with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear; (to tail) to
hold back the dog by the tail. --Nares.
When most of the waiters were commanded away to
their supper, the parlor or stove being nearly
emptied, in came a company of musketeers. --Earl of
Strafford.
How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and
caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy,
or under the pole! --Burton.
2. An apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for
fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously
constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a
room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes.
{Cooking stove}, a stove with an oven, opening for pots,
kettles, and the like, -- used for cooking.
{Foot stove}. See under {Foot}.
{Franklin stove}. See in the Vocabulary.
{Stove plant} (Bot.), a plant which requires artificial heat
to make it grow in cold or cold temperate climates.
{Stove plate}, thin iron castings for the parts of stoves.
2. To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.
{Hydrocarbon burner}, {furnace}, {stove}, a burner, furnace,
or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.